Our speakers
Amit Khatri, Co-Founder, Noise
Amit Khosla, MD, AB Capital Advisers Private Limited
Amit is Managing Director of Asiabridge Capital since inception. Amit was also Chief Representative of Hana Bank in India from 2009 to 2013 and brings over 12 years experience having worked in New York, Hong Kong and India.
With strong domain expertise in Financial Services, Asiabridge invests in mid-size companies with high quality management teams. Investment expertise straddles financial services (including regional banking, consumer finance, housing finance, equipment leasing and capital markets) and consumer driven sectors such as IT enabled services (such as mobile banking, e-commerce / payment and loyalty platforms) and healthcare.
Previously, he established the India office for a global hedge fund in New Delhi covering private equity, real estate and special situations. Prior to that, he was with Actis Capital and was part of a team that was setting up the business of acquisition of distressed debt. With specialisation in financial institutions, he has worked in global investment banks JP Morgan Chase & Co and Fox-Pitt, Kelton in New York and Hong Kong.
Amit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (with honours) (B.A. (hons) Eco) from Delhi University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.
Amit Kumar, CEO, OLX Group India
Amit Kumar, Client Partner, Persistent
Amit has decades of experience in identifying, developing, and exponentially growing new markets, building diverse and inclusive teams, and adopting the right technologies to enable successful digital transformation in the digital natives. He is proficient in looking at the big picture, interacting with customers, and comprehending requirements.
Amit Kumar Agarwal, Founder & CEO, NoBroker.com
Amit Kumar Agarwal is the Co-Founder & CEO of NoBroker.com. Amit founded NoBroker.com to revolutionize house hunting not just by eliminating brokerage but by making it convenient and hassle-free with the use of cutting edge technology and innovation.
He looks after overall vision and direction for the company. Out of 13 years of his total work experience, he spent 8 years in management consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their Banking and Financial services vertical. In this period, he consulted top Indian and foreign banks for formulating their business strategy (entry & portfolio strategy) and enhanced their on-ground profitability (through large-scale pan-India implementation, impacting hundreds of branches). He led consulting teams, worked directly with CXOs , and won many accolades. This led him to head the strategy function in ANZ Bank reporting to India CEO. Here, he formulated India strategy and was instrumental in getting the bank, the very coveted two additional India branch licenses from RBI. Having won badminton championship in school, his passion is to play squash.
Amit is an alumnus from IIT-Kanpur and IIM- Ahmedabad.
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Amit Kumar Gupta, CTO, Rebel Foods (Formerly Faasos)
Amit Lakhmani, Founder & Director, Max Mobility Pvt Ltd
A first generation entrepreneur, Amit set up his first Internet Technology Outsourcing company in 2001. Having experienced key technology and delivery roles in the internet space, Amit dived into telecom space and founded MaxMobility in 2004.
As an early player in the Consumer and Enterprise mobility space, he’s developed a rich network in the telecom industry and leads the strategic tie ups and new initiatives from the forefront – building MaxMobility from a garage start-up to a 100+ strong company.
Amit Lakhotia, VP-Payments, One97 & Paytm
Amit Lakhotia heads the payment business at Paytm and is building India's first consumer brand in payments. His vision is to build the most trusted payments platform in India. He has dabbled in entrepreneurship earlier in the cab space and was a part of the team that built MakeMyTrip prior to that.
Amit Mahensaria, Co-founder, Impartus Innovations
Amit Mahensaria, Co-Founder & CEO of Impartus Innovations, India is an IIT Delhi and IIM Lucknow alumnus and has been associated with the education sector for more than 10 years, earlier as a venture capital investor as now as an entrepreneur.
Through Impartus, Amit is bringing videos into mainstream learning; and thereby creating an impact for students and teachers alike. Impartus is a video platform for creation and online distribution of classroom videos and is a clear market leader in its space in India and has also expanded to Asia Pacific.
Before co-founding Impartus, Amit worked as an Investment Manager at IDFC Private Equity and has led numerous education, infrastructure and technology projects in India and abroad. He is passionate about technology innovations and Impartus is his 2nd entrepreneurial venture in the ed-tech domain.
Amit Mantri, VP, Zephyr Peacock
Amit joined Zephyr Peacock in 2010 and has been involved in several transactions in the Logistics, Financial Services, IT and Pharma industry. At Zephyr, Amit is actively involved in the investment process – sourcing, investment evaluation, transaction execution and post-investment monitoring. Amit currently monitors Zephyr's investments in NetAmbit, Trimax IT, 20Cube Logistics and Miles Software. Amit assists the Zephyr portfolio companies in business development, hiring and overall strategy.
Amit has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Prior to his MBA, Amit worked as a software analyst at Strand Life Sciences and has also completed brief stints at Standard Chartered, CRISIL and NVidia.